"A better researched article said the CDC provided medical samples of these diseases for medical research (diagnostics, physician training, etc.). There were no weapons grade materials provided, no manuals on how to create biological weapons, nor was US support provided to create weapons." Providing cultures of anthrax for veterinary research is as far from biowarfare material as shipping scrap iron to the Japanese was from the Yamato.
To see Byrd and the Democrats attempt to make a political issue of this reveals their sordid partisanship.
Almost anything is probably better researched than a Reed Irvine report, which takes snippets of other stories, usually with some attribution, to put out a premise that can sometimes be knocked down by 20 minutes of web searching.
Just because we seem to like some of the conclusions in some of the stories doesn't mean any real work or fact checking has actually been done by Irvine's group.